16:00 The Press Association has completed an analysis revealing that one in every 20 NHS workers in England comes from the EU.

It shows than 57,608 NHS workers come from the EU - 5% of the total workforce.

Bt.com report Jason Parker, head of healthcare at KPMG consultants, saying: 'Today's economic uncertainty as a result of Brexit has a potentially huge impact on the NHS's workforce. The health sector is enormously reliant on workers from the European Economic Area. We will be advising our clients to look after and reassure these highly skilled and valued workers.

'We expect there to be further implications for research and innovation in the NHS, as many collaborations and employees in this domain rely on existing links with the European Union.'

14:35 Away from Brexit for the moment, and on to a speech by the that reveals cakes and sweets are poor for your weight and your teeth. There is slightly more to it - it blames the workplace 'cake culture' for our obesity problems.

The dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, Professor Nigel Hunt, will call for employers to stop offering such snacks in meetings, the Independent reports.

In a speech to the Faculty of Dental Surgery's annual dinner, Professor Hunt will say: 'It is particularly dangerous that this is lying around the office all day for as we know, sugar has a particularly negative effect if it's eaten outside of meal time.

'Cake culture also poses difficulties for those who are trying their hardest to lose weight or become healthier - how many of us have begun such diets only to cave in to the temptation of the doughnuts, cookies or the triple chocolate biscuits?

“I'm not saying we need to ban such treats. But we do need a change in culture.'

11:55 National Association of Primary Care chair Dr Nav Chana, speaking to Pulse in a personal capacity, said: 'I would want to be very clear about what the impact will be on our workforce, particularly as we currently draw quite a large proportion of our doctors and nurses from the EU.

'We have to be very clear about some of the statements I have heard, regarding the impact on workload in general practice at the moment, and linking that to immigration issues.

'These are political statements and I don’t want to get drawn into that – but I would say don’t let the remain or Brexit campaigns distract from the fact that general practice in particular is under-resourced and if people can’t get appointments it’s not because of immigration issues, it is because of the whole way our system works and general issues around resources and funding within primary care.'

11:10 The BMA has now released a statement.

A BMA spokesperson said: 'In the aftermath of the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the BMA reaffirms its commitment to working with our European partners and the European Union to safeguard the future of our profession and the patients we serve.

'We urge politicians not to play games with the UK's health services as the country faces a new future. We stand together as one profession with our colleagues from Europe and across the world, with whom we live, work and study and on whom the NHS depends.'

9:45 As the UK wakes up to the seismic news, we'll have all the reaction as it comes.

The NHS Confederation is first out of the blocks. It says: 'The NHS has broadly benefitted from being in the EU and leaving it will undoubtedly have implications which are yet to be clearly understood. The priorities for those who lead and are on the frontline of delivering NHS funded services are the sustainability and quality of patient care.

'It is impossible to predict the full impact at this stage, but clearly it is vital that our government seeks a strong, nuanced agreement with the European Union that recognises how interwoven NHS and EU policies have become.

'The NHS’s top priority will be to adapt to the new circumstances and continue its high quality services for patients. The NHS Confederation, through our European Office will be working in Brussels and the UK to ensure the needs of the NHS and its patients are understood throughout this process.'

8.45 Good morning and welcome to the live blog.

UKIP leader and Leave EU campaigner Nigel Farage appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain this morning, saying that the campaign’s pledge to spend £350m worth of weekly EU contributions on the NHS was actually 'a mistake'.

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The spin continues and confessions of any sort are now irrelevant. The outcome of the referendum shows how cut off from reality the political elite were. They just did not register the fact that the middle working classes in the country did not share their hurrahoptimism and while business and people in metropolitan cities were sure voters for them, they overestimated support.My patients would come and ask me what I thought about the EU referendum. I always said to them 'You in Strood are second class citizens of this country. If you register with a Practice in Rochester next door the NHS would pay 20-50 pounds more for your care per year. But if you registered with a London Practice, they would get even up to twice the amount government is paying for your care at present.' Of course, the general mood was-'I am out!' as it was all blamed on the EU with the political spin to back it.As an EU national I might have been shooting myself in the foot giving a frank opinion and being honest all these years with my patients. But here is the clincher- People have been hard hit by austerity measures and the vote against EU was not so much about immigrants, but by the general economic measures and the perception that Bankers have been let off and businesses and the rich supported while the hard working people of this country have felt let down. It was a vote against this government and the havoc it has caused to services across the country including the NHS. It is no wonder that cities where incomes were higher have opted to stay in. Scotland and NI had national interests rather than economic. Cameron and Hunt woke up this morning to the brutal reality that people don't trust them after all. It had been a no confidence vote. I am sure they are saying with a deep sigh ' Lessons have been learnt' - for once they are at the receiving end.

Yes, a kick back to austerity, a recalcitrant vote and sod the consequences. Sadly the decision was also ill-informed and will have devastating short term repercussions ... and in the long run we're all dead.

Perhaps they should have voted for the next generation, most of whom wanted in and now feel they have been robbed of their European identity with which they were much more at ease than the old fogies.

Left with a feeling of profound irreparable loss. Can't we please do best of three? Off to listen to Muddy Waters. What a sad sad day.